What makes a beautiful poem?

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?” (1870)

To write a memorable poem one must first learn how to express emotion in their poetry that envelopes readers and audiences in the same way Emily Dickinson has so vividly described.

Jackson – facilitator of the workshop Writing Powerful Poetry – will help you achieve this. Her poetry has been published many times, she has a wealth of teaching, mentoring and poetry editing experience and in 2014 she won the Ethel Webb Bundell Poetry Award.

Her workshop will take place on Sunday the 17th May at the Peter Cowan Writers Centre and will cover the ways in which strong emotion can be transported through poetry as well as analyzing the ways in which famous poets construct mystery and magic.

To quote from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves” (1865)